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That latter lack of care is also reflected in the careless use of 'Nominalist' as though it were a univocal term.
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The Nominalist Thesis (NT): For any predication, Px, 'P' means only that x is a member of a set of contingently associated individuals (or sense images of individuals) with nothing intrinsically in common.
An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008
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You still haven't explained why in an NT-world Nocrates must be a Nominalist, instead of a Realist.
An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008
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You still haven't explained why in an NT-world Nocrates must be a Nominalist, instead of a Realist.
An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008
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OK, Doug, it's still not clear to me why Nocrates must be a Nominalist.
An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008
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Why would that mean that Nocrates must be a Nominalist?
An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008
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Socrates could be a Nominalist in RT, and Nocrates could be a Realist in NT.
An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008
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Why would that mean that Nocrates must be a Nominalist?
An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008
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Or we choose the provisional response from a Nominalist Argument and we then can hope for more occultism and cryptography.
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On the other hand, his defence of Realism on the problem of universals is partially invalidated by the acceptance, although restricted, of the Nominalist principle of the autonomy of thought in relation to the world.
Johannes Sharpe Conti, Alessandro 2005
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